K-Pop groups that generate the most revenue

[ᴅᴇᴇᴘ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ♔]

According to the Money Magazine, these are the richest groups in the kpop industry currently despite the global breakthrough and the continuous popularity of k-pop itself.

#9. GOT7: from strong album sales to endorsement deals to huge global tours.

#8. Red Velvet: endorsement deals

#7. Wanna One: tons of albums were sold out, strong endorsement deals

#6. Seventeen: world tour, sold album records, Japanese debut, entered the beauty market as models for Saem.

#5. EXO: extensive brand deals, extremely high album sales, concert ticket sales.

#4. TVXQ: continuous concert tickets being sold out specifically in Japan

#3. BLACKPINK: world tour with sold-out shows in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

#2. Twice: tons of albums sold out, scored endorsement deals, tons of concert tickets sold out across the globe.

#1. BTS: collaborations with notable artists, breaking album sales records to sold-out world tours

 

[JiyeonFati]

Seams pretty legit but not NCT ? Gaon album chart for 201901-201908 :

#​	Art + Solo​	Album Sell​
1​	BTS​	5 377 272​
2​	EXO​	1 204 128​
3​	Wanna One​	1 027 543​
4​	NCT​	727 252​
5​	TWICE​	611 379​
6​	Seventeen​	563 673​
7​	X1 (엑스원)​	462 733​
8​	GOT7​	408 852​
9​	Stray Kids​	387 498​
10​	BLACKPINK​	339 830​
11​	IZ*ONE​	314 841​
12​	Red Velvet​	311 511​
49​	TVXQ​	41 656​

 

[ᴅᴇᴇᴘ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ♔]

Seams pretty legit but not NCT ? Gaon album chart for 201901-201908 :

#​	Art + Solo​	Album Sell​
1​	BTS​	5 377 272​
2​	EXO​	1 204 128​
3​	Wanna One​	1 027 543​
4​	NCT​	727 252​
5​	TWICE​	611 379​
6​	Seventeen​	563 673​
7​	X1 (엑스원)​	462 733​
8​	GOT7​	408 852​
9​	Stray Kids​	387 498​
10​	BLACKPINK​	339 830​
11​	IZ*ONE​	314 841​
12​	Red Velvet​	311 511​
49​	TVXQ​	41 656​

Yeah, I got it from the news anyway so maybe it’s that or maybe it’s not..

 

[mashikyukyu]

Seams pretty legit but not NCT ? Gaon album chart for 201901-201908 :

#​	Art + Solo​	Album Sell​
1​	BTS​	5 377 272​
2​	EXO​	1 204 128​
3​	Wanna One​	1 027 543​
4​	NCT​	727 252​
5​	TWICE​	611 379​
6​	Seventeen​	563 673​
7​	X1 (엑스원)​	462 733​
8​	GOT7​	408 852​
9​	Stray Kids​	387 498​
10​	BLACKPINK​	339 830​
11​	IZ*ONE​	314 841​
12​	Red Velvet​	311 511​
49​	TVXQ​	41 656​

you can just see X1's popularity and mnets power by how high they've reached even though they just debuted woow
super cool

 

[JiyeonFati]

In the chart I counted solo artirts like Kang Daniel in Wanna One, same for EXO. They worth a large part of it ^^
Over 500k for Kang Daniel, and 550k for Baek Hyun (EXO).
In reality, Wanna One albums sells are just over 70k this year, the rest is due to 5 soloists each selling higher.
And duo of Pentagon Wooseok and Wanna One Kualin is counted with Pentagon (36414), and Baek Jin-young iss counted with CIX (64447). So you could also add ~100K to Wanna One sells.

IZ*one also top Oricon chart with their current song, so they might quickly enter the richest groups list.

 

[LizzieCornZ__]

In the chart I counted solo artirts like Kang Daniel in Wanna One, same for EXO. They worth a large part of it ^^
Over 500k for Kang Daniel, and 550k for Baek Hyun (EXO).
In reality, Wanna One albums sells are just over 70k this year, the rest is due to 5 soloists each selling higher.
And duo of Pentagon Wooseok and Wanna One Kualin is counted with Pentagon (36414), and Baek Jin-young iss counted with CIX (64447). So you could also add ~100K to Wanna One sells.

IZ*one also top Oricon chart with their current song, so they might quickly enter the richest groups list.

WANNA ONE

 

[ThoseGoodOldDreams]

That's really impressive for Blackpink considering they haven't released many albums yet.

 

[Maruberry]

I've seen this list going around for a long time now and I'm pretty sure it's not just wrong, but also outdated. Not to mention how tf would they even GET that information??

In what god damn world would Blackpink have earned more money than EXO?
Are they doing more brand deals?
Are they selling more albums?
Do they have more concerts?

in WHAT WORLD and HOW does Blackpink make more money.

Even TWICE is iffy about making more than EXO, although I can see them doing it since y'know.... They actually have had a lot of concerts aka the thing that brings in the most money...

but if we are talking about money made in all of their career put together, EXO is 100% above Twice as well, since they have had a whole 4 years more to tour!

EDIT: Just realized this is an old af thread, don't care, rant still valid